5.6 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Oct. 



Literary Communications. 



The Secretary repoi'ted receipt of a continuation of the late Mr. Georgb 

 Trebeck's manuscript journals, (Cashmir to Cabul, May— June, 1823,) pre- 

 sented by his brother Mr. Charles Trebeck, who had at length recovered 

 it through Mr. Fraser of Delhi. It is believed that other portions of his 

 and of Moorcroft's papers still remain up the country. Resolved, that the 

 present portion be despatched forthwith to Professor Wilson, who is now 

 engaged in publishing the former part of Moorcroft's Journals, on the 

 part of the Society. 



A letter was read from the Baron Von Hammer, dated Vienna, 31st 

 March, 1834., presenting a manuscript analysis and translation in part of a 

 rare and valuable Arabic work entitled ' Mohit,' by Kiatib Rami. 



"After my return from Italy, where I found at Naples, in the year 1825, in the 

 library of the Museo Borbonico, Kiatib Rami's Mohit, which contains a treatise 

 on navigation in general, and that of the Indian seas in particular, I redoubled 

 my commissions at Constantinople for this exceedingly rare manuscript, and was 

 last year so fortunate as to purchase a copy of it. 



" I hasten to transmit some extracts to the Asiatic Society, which if they are 

 thought interesting enough, I shall have great pleasure in continuing." 



An account of the overland journeys of the same Arabic author, by M. Von 

 Hammer, appeared in the first part of the Bombay As. Soc. Transactions, in which 

 an allusion is made to the present work. (See also Orient. Mag. I. 233.) 



A letter was read from W. H. Wathen, Esq. Secretary to the Bombay 

 Government, transmitting by order of the Right Honorable the Governor 

 in Council, a copy of an inscription found on the Arabian coast at a place 

 called Hasan Ghorab, near Aden, together with a graphic description of the 

 ancient fort, drawn up by Lieutenant Wellsted of the Indian Navy. 

 [This paper will have an early place in the Journal.] 



Read a letter from the Rev. J. Stevenson, on the subject of the Inscrip- 

 tions engraved on the excavated temple at Karli near Puna, which he has 

 succeeded in decyphering with the assistance of the alphabet of the Allaha- 

 bad monument published in the Journal As. Soc. 



[This paper is inserted in the present number.] 



The continuation of Lieut. Foley's description of Ramree Island was 

 received and read. 



Extracts of a private letter to the Secretary, from Captain C. M. Wade, 

 Political Agent at Ludiana, were read, enclosing a Memoir in French, by 

 M. Court, an officer in the service of Maharaja RanjIt Singh, detailing 

 his operations on several other Topes in the neighbourhood of that origi-' 

 nally opened by General Ventura ; one of them affording highly interest- 

 ing results. 



Captain Wade also forwarded a letter from General Ventura himself, 

 who, in continuation of his former important researches, has since collected 

 upwards of live hundred ancient coins, which he has entrusted to M. Al- 

 lard, for the Museum of Paris, politely offering their inspection and exa- 

 mination to the members of the Asiatic Society, as long as M. Allard may 

 remain in the metropolis. 



